Parasitic diseases of the digestive system
Helminthiasis - Diseases, caused by parasitic worms. Helminthiasis ubiquitous, cause significant harm to human health and cause great economic damage, causing animal disease, fish, plant. A person infected with helminths often through the mouth, where the eggs or larvae come from contaminated hands, and through insufficiently cooked or washed berries, fruit.
A person infected with worms by eating insufficiently cooked beef, infected bovine tapeworm larvae, pork and pork tapeworm larvae, freshwater fish larvae of broad tapeworm (difilloʙotrioz), Siberian fluke (opisthorchiasis); through the hands, contaminated with feces of dogs, containing tapeworm eggs or larvae, etc.. Infection can occur as a result of the use of raw water, containing larvae of worms, such water when washing vegetables, fruit, utensils.
Clinical manifestations of helminthiasis It depends on the type of pathogen, intensity of infection, the state of the patient and other factors. The disease may be asymptomatic, but more often as a result of infection appear general, and sometimes specific symptoms. Common symptoms include weakness, fatigue, irritability. Slimming helminthiasis may occur, but more often it indicates severe course of infection or join complication. Symptoms, associated with damage to the gastrointestinal tract, They can be expressed as cramping abdominal pain, increased salivation, nausea, meteorism, violation of nature and stool consistency.
The most common helminth infections: askaridoz, strongiloidoz, opisthorchiasis, difilloʙotrioz. From protozoonozov most common giardiasis.
